Second DFG Junior Researcher Academy

By focusing on these topics, the Senate Commission aims to be able to propose measures and initiatives to position and further develop basic agricultural research in Germany. The commission also aims to develop approaches for the cross-disciplinary consolidation and coordination of scientific expertise, for the improvement of the research infrastructure and for the establishment of beneficial general conditions in agroecosystem research.

28 - 29 January 2016|Presentation of the work of the joint working group “Sustainable intensification in agriculture” with DKN I Future Earth at 2nd German Future Earth Summit in Berlin

19 - 20 November 2015Joint roundtable discussion “Sustainable intensification of agricultural production: The need for socio-ecological solutions at the regional level” by the Working Group "Sustainable intensification in agriculture" of the Senate Commission with DKN Future Earth.

The goal of the roundtable discussion was to identify issues and existing data which could form the basis for joint research projects, for example in the form of a shared proposal or (in the mid-term) a priority area. At the roundtable discussion, the subject of "Productivity development of winter wheat, maize and rape crops with reference to climate change" was identified as a suitable theme given its strong relevance to society and the existence of metadata.

23 - 25 October 2013Think Tank Roundtable Discussion with the Working Group "Sustainable intensification of plant production systems" to discuss the draft of the policy paper "Sustainable and resource-efficient intensification of crop production: perspectives of agroecosystem research" with early career researchers in Göttingen.

August 2013Adoption of the policy paper "Sustainable and resource-efficient intensification of crop production: perspectives of agroecosystem research” by members of the Senate Commission.

19 December 2012Meeting of the Working Group "Sustainable intensification of plant production systems" in Göttingen

Draft of a policy paper " Sustainable and resource-efficient intensification of crop production: perspectives of agroecosystem research". The following core research areas and the desirable outcomes were identified:

networking of molecular biological plant research with plant breeding and plant cultivation

analysis of cultivation systems within a landscape context.

Starting from the scientific basics and actual issues, conceptual ideas and options for utilisation will be highlighted as well as opportunities and tools for systematic decision-making processes and channels (such as where do we need innovative methods for new achievements, how do we overcome the variability of scales in the field of processes and in formulating hypotheses: how can complex systems be brought together?).

21 September 2012Joint Roundtable Discussion with the Working Groups "Sustainable intensification of plant production systems" and "Research Infrastructures".

The Roundtable Discussion illustrated in particular the necessity to consolidate the exchange of knowledge and to establish a common level of language between plant breeding/plant genetics, plant cultivation, biodiversity/ecology and socio economics, also beyond scale boundaries.

July - August 2012Survey by the "Research Infrastructures" Working Group among the operators of field trial stations at universities and non-university research organisations (the Helmholtz Association, the Leibniz Association, the Thünen Institute (Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries), the Julius Kühn Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, state research).

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The commission was set up on 1 January 2012 as a successor to the Senate Commission on Substances and Resources in Agriculture (SKLW).